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The Present Future

While reading around the subject of Jesus saying: “You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” (Luke 12: 56)...

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Transcending CSS

Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time. As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book...

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The Abs Diet

In my last issue of Men’s Health magazine I got a flyer inviting me to Send for your 14-day FREE-PREVIEW COPY of The Abs Diet… If I decided to keep the book the flyer told me that “I’ll pay four easy...

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Learning Subversion

Having effectively moved PCs three times in the last year I’m feeling a little insecure about the safety of my code, so today I’m learning how to use Subversion. Subversion (SVN) is a version control...

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Financial liberty for the Library One

Yesterday I got a call from the University Library asking why I’d not returned the book that was recalled last Saturday. Erm … because that telephone call was the first time I’d heard about the book...

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The most dangerous sounding book in the world

I think I’ve just found the most dangerous sounding book in the world on Amazon: Plumbing for Dummies. I’m surprised on that page it doesn’t have People who bought this book also bought: CPR for...

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I’m now five-shelves of books lighter

Piles of books and rubbish on my study floor mid-clear-out Okay, so whose bright idea was it to try to simplify life a little and get rid of books that I haven’t even opened in years?! In the end, this...

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Burning to get my hands on an Amazon Kindle 3G

The Amazon Kindle 3G in someone else's hands Probably like a lot of people of the geek persuasion, I have a lot of e-books: articles, books, cheatsheets, leaflets, manuals. I have e-books about CSS,...

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Amazon Kindle 3G – initial impressions

O2 Xda Zest phone sitting on top of an Amazon Kindle 3 On Tuesday my Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi arrived. And there was much rejoicing. Why I bought a Kindle For a few years now I’ve wanted an eBook...

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Bizarre suggestions from Amazon UK

Amazon UK has just sent me an email wondering if I might be interested in the following bizarre collection of books: Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich Bombproof Your Horse: Teach Your Horse to be...

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